In case you didn’t know, Warner Bros now owns Mortal Kombat, and if you didn’t know, then you haven’t been paying attention to the numerous free plugs WB has been inserting for the games into other properties. Every time you see a CW superhero character playing a video game, it is usually the latest Mortal Kombat installment. Now you learned something. (Hopefully you’re not so ignorant
that you’re wondering why Chun-Li isn’t in this.)
WB has also been trying to expand MK’s reach into other mediums — an animated feature was released not too long ago. But the big goal was always a Mortal Kombat live-action feature film, and it’s almost ready, even if the nation’s theaters still aren’t (it’ll be on HBO Max same-day anyway).
There were two Mortal Kombat movies released in theaters during the 90s. The difference between those and this one is that the WB version isn’t going to shy away from the...
